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Lost in this overview (and I couldn't really tell the point of the overview) are the probably 10 000 + people per year who go to this site by mistake. It's odd to me that Nissan didn't just offer him those 7 figures worth of legal fees and solve it (or maybe they did to no effect)

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I've actually met the guy and did some contract work for him. After hearing the story from his mouth, what stuck with me is his utter dislike for the Nissan CEO and Arabs. He seemed very passionate about Israel and cited Nissan's Arab CEO as a huge part of why he dislikes that company.

It's quite strange to see Carlos Ghosn described as an Arab. As far as I know, he has never spoke publicly about Israël.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ghosn

To people who are that fanatical about Israel, I don't think it matters that he hasn't said anything. It's guilt by association.

Why would one's status as an Arab depend on public statements about Israel?

If I understand badclient correctly, the (alleged) attitude of M. Nissan towards Arabs and Israël comes from his problems with M. Ghosn. I'm just saying that if it's the case, it make no sens.

Other way around. His attitude towards Ghosn/Nissan Motors comes from his problems with Arabs and his feelings on Israel.

he is one third lebanese, a country bordering and in constant war with israel.

Hezbollah is in conflict with Israel.

Carlos Ghosn's background is Maronite Christian.

Racism has always been a bit strange to me, but the idea of turning down a literal million dollars because of it is just unfathomably alien.

Ugh. Yet another example of why you should never meet your heroes...

I suspect they initially thought they could just bully the guy. By the time they understood he actually was on solid ground (it was the 90s, lawyers didn't know anything about our intertubes), it was too late: smallbiz owners like Mr. Nissan can be the hardest mofos once they get personal. I bet he's still proud he didn't accept their offers.

It's old news anyway, very well-known. I'm always surprised when stuff like this comes up on news sites, I tend to forget the web is full of goddamn kids these days ;)

> I'm always surprised when stuff like this comes up on news sites, I tend to forget the web is full of goddamn kids these days ;)

Yeah, they wouldn't know a Fuzzball if it bit them on the ass, and nobody knows the true meaning of Flag Day anymore (uh, either of them).

I'd actually not heard of this even though I've been on the Internet since 1989.

This reminds me of the domain http://steam.com, which has the following text in the frontpage:

"This domain is not for sale."

I'm sure Valve could drop a ton of money to aquire that domain.

Exactly. My first thought whenever this topic comes up is why a company that big simply can't make him an offer he couldn't refuse. Maybe he's stubborn or something but I have to take the little guy's side here.

Maybe they should get nissan.co lmao. Wait, nissan.co leads to Mazda. Hmm, it's not immediately clear to me what the relationship between nissan and mazda is.

Edit: nevermind, it seems to take you to a random car related destination. After checking it out further the dntx.com domain takes you to mazda first, then some other car search site, then finally a site with an empty template.

nissan.co takes me to a super shady website. http://betterlivinginsider.com/biz/AU/lp01A.htm?t202id=79166...

It just randomly takes you to few span followed by mazda on first go.

I'm sure that the same efforts and patience invested in negotiating with the man would have bought them the assets. Bully is bully dude got mad.

Who is the bully? Squatters are just taking advantage of their advantage of the internet to loot someone else's brand, similar to patent trolls. Two sides to every story.

shrug

How many of those people actually decided to buy a Toyota because the Nissan site didn't load on the first try? I think people overestimate how much a domain name matters.

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